Why Web3 Development should prioritize user experience
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The year was 2025. It has been over 16 years since the Bitcoin Whitepaper has been published and 10 years since the launch of the Ethereum, and the programmable smart contract layer with it. In the billions of dollars invested in the industry, and thousands of developers contributing thousands of applications, primitive, and protocols, will there be many Turnkey Web3 toolsets available to expand the adoption?
Unfortunately the answer is a resounding “no.”
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However, the essential toolets that have been the easy and enjoyable use of technology in the early days of the Internet. It’s hard to -Pin down the exact year the web has become big enough to start affecting people’s lives, but I suggest that this happened in the late 1990s. By 1995, AOL crossed 3 million users Mark and Yahoo! was launched only as the second default gateway on the web. Google has been established three years later and the main search has become a feature that has opened the door to new users around 1999.
The Web2 period, which begins in early 2000, is led by handy, template -driven tools to bring a wide user base to that revolution. Within a year, the Amazon Marketplace (2000) brought an e-commerce turnkey solution to the market. Less than five years after Google wrote the first line of code, WordPress (2003), Myspace (2003) and Facebook (2004) allowed people to share their own personal profiles and web stories.
Is this the wild success of the Internet that encourages many companies to quickly offer easy to use, less technical tools to expand the industry’s reach? Or, is this having the better user experiences that have been possible for the industry? Probably quite the same.
However, here we are in 2025 and the number of web3 platforms resembling those who have helped drive the Internet increases are small. Most of the Live projects or protocols are clearly targeted at any developers or other hardcore crypto natives. Can an industry continue to suggest that it wants to be aggressive to expand its reach without really developing tools for a wider user base?
We need to understand the incentives. Web3 participants are often incentivized, through tokens, to engage in advance of a given project, whatever it can use. The priority is often given to projects with stable social media compliance that can respond well to a token launch. But unless the early version of the product is plugging a critical hole, users are rarely incentivized to continue working it for a longer period.
In fact, it’s really worse than that. Many crypto participants-natives are often recruited To move on to any new operation of the early stage is in Vogue. In other words, ease of use and long-term adoption is not important to “success” on the web3, so it’s no wonder they are often overlooked.
For web3 on transferring past perennially “early” and instead of the explosive growth of the web2, we need to focus our attention on the tools and UI/UX that expands both our user’s base and our underlying that cases of use. To handle the long -term, web3 products itself should be seamless to solve the usual, real problems for users and keep increasing the amount for long.